Necrocasticon

Volume 4 Chapter 9 welcomes back author Kelli Owen to the panel as we discuss our mid-year picks for horror & metal. But that's not all, as the is week in Metal & Horror History brings us a discussion on novelist Dean Koontz! Plus we interview actor Faran Tahir and Skip Novak reviews A.I. Tales!

It's a Necrocasticon with Buttercup on top special! Kelli Owen joins Tom, Scott and Liz to talk about Harlan Ellison and a whole ton more! This week in metal & horror history remembers a Cannibal Corpse release and one of the scariest movies of the new millennia, The Descent. Our Video Nasties preview features an Udo Kier film with many names. Plus Wrestlers Vs. A B Movie returns as the Pillars of Fury take on MAD GENIUS!

We remember Vinnie Paul Abbot, plus reviews of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and King Cohen, and the return of this week in Metal and horror history wishes happy birthday to The Thing and Motorhead's only #1 album...

We're spread across time and space this week for the sixth chapter of the fourth volume of the Necrocasticon. Mr. Scott is at the helm, as Tom was on assignment, bringing us back interviews with horror author Drew Stepek, the man behind the Knuckler series and #SummerZombie author Tom Malafarina. But that's not all! Walt's smoking up a review is something “Smalls” for us, and Liz takes us back to the Video Nasties, and she's eating us alive with Tobe Hooper's Death Trap.

Volume 4 Chapter 5 of the Necrocasticon features the very metal and horror film producer Christian Ackerman about his docu-book, My Favorite Horror Movie, and the #SummerZombie author, MV Clark (The Splits). Plus Tom reviews Upgrade and Hereditary, Walt revisits Megadeth's Killing is My Business on reissue, Liz talks Video Nasty and Scott remember Ralph Santolla.

It's another jam packed chapter of the Necrocasticon. And we're getting Jurassic on you. Sgt Fury returns for Wrestler vs. a B Movie to give us an advance review of The Jurassic Games hitting VOD next week! But that's not all! We talk to Jurassic Games director, Ryan Bellgardt! Tom talks about the summer of Zombie book tour, Scott reviews the latest Bill Z Bub film, Exploitation, Walt talks about God Of War some more, Dark Souls remastered. Plus Tom went to see Ghost and tells us about the new album and Liz tells us about her convention travels...  

Volume 4 Chapter 3 of the Necrocasticon is full of new stuff! Reviews of the latest from Burn the Priest and At the Gates! We welcome author Chuck Buda, sort of. Then, You've Got to Be Kidding's Skip Novak joins us to review The Nursery, plus we talk to the movie's directors, Christopher A. Micklos & Jay Sapiro. Tom & Scott go spoiler free to Deadpool 2 and Solo and Liz fills us in on more controversy surrounding A Serbian Film.

The Necrocasticon goes on the road this week, as Tom and Liz take on the Second Annual Horror Show With Brian Keene charity telethon to benefit Scares That Care. We've got tons of highlights, plus Ed and Jose from Discipline Theory join us to talk about their history. But that's not all. Our Average American Guy, Antonio, joins us to review SOFT MATTER, hitting VOD this week! As a special bonus, Tom got to talk to the film's director, Jim Hickcox. It's a jam packed chapter you don't want to miss!

The fourth volume of the Necrocasticon opens its first chapter for your pleasure, dear listeners. Tom, Scott, Walt & Liz are shelling out the metal and horror this Volume, peeps & perps! Our panel talks to Ryan Cadaver, lead vocalist of Atlanta GA shock rockers Casket Creatures. And did we mention they've got a new CD coming out? But that's not all. Tom got to chat with actress Katie Burgess from the upcoming feature, THE JURASSIC GAMES. And we couldn't have a new season start off without an epic B Movie review, could we? Enter the Pillars of Fury vs. THEY REMAIN, coming to VOD on May 29th! You want album reviews? We got reviews! Walt tells us about the new Anthrax live album and Tom reduces the latest Breaking Benjamin to Embers. All this, plus Tom and Liz chat about their experience at the 2nd Annual Horror Show With Brian Keene 24 Hour Telethon! 

Volume 3 Chapter 52 of the Necrocasticon gets technical on you this week as Scott and Walt talk Prog Metal with The Horror Show's Dave Thomas.   Plus they get into why Scares That Care is so cool and why you should check out the 2nd Annual Horror Show Telethon

The only thing salty is the potatoes as Volume 3 Chapter 51 of the Necrocasticon takes you to the Salt City Horror Fest. The annual film festival in Syracuse, NY is starting gain national notoriety, and rightfully so. Tom visited this year's offerings and got to see an uncensored cut of the 1933 classic King Kong! Plus he fell asleep during CHUD II: Bud the CHUD, but he did get a Film Talk with the star Gerritt Graham and director David Irving, and a conversation with Creepshow 2 head animator, Rick Catizone!

Welcome to the Necrocasticon, Volume 3 - Chapter 50. We're nearing the end of our 3rd chapter, and as we do, we're moving more into our new discussion format, which is going to be a bunch of peeps talking about horror and metal each week with a loose main topic. We're covering both bases with our guests this week. One is no stranger to us, making his return visit, horror author Mike Duke! And making his first appearance, Brick by Brick bassist Andy Parsons! Plus we throw axes at Ash Vs. Evil Dead, we remember Mini-Me and Liz finally got to see A Quiet Place...

The 49th Chapter of the Necrocasticon's third volume brings the horror home, as we focus on the family as a trope in horror and the family that is metal heads. We also accepted Liz's challenge, and watched Dead & Buried, a classic from the Video Nasties list we'd overlooked. Plus, Walt gives us a Shadow Theory on what the simple folk do in Kamelot, Tom whispers about A Quiet Place, and the Head Hauntress goes on a Rampage and gives Scott an assist in an ax murdering spree.

Welcome to volume 3 chapter 48 of the Necrocasticon, where we blend horror and heavy metal for your pleasure and ours. We're hopping in the DeGorian and going back in time to 1988. The Metal. The Horror movies and novels. Everything that made 1988 memorable. Plus, Scott gives the axe handle to a wooden cancer survivor and for posterity's sake, Liz goes to the dungeon and tells us how she feels about the Iron Maiden on scale of 1-10.

Welcome to volume 3 chapter 47 of the Necrocasticon, where we blend horror and heavy metal for your pleasure and ours. This week we're talking about the Zombie Phenomenon, a juggernaut in the pop culture world. What is the state of all things zombie? That is the question we pose on this week's Necrocasticon. Plus Walt has a torch light revival in the smoker, Tom talks on AMC's The Terror, Mr. Scott experiences Mayhem, and Liz, well, she gets sent to the dungeon.

The Necrocastcon's 150th Chapter! It's a star studded horror and metal spectacular! Hosts Tom Clark, Scott Groverston, Walt Ball & Liz Gray dig into the sword & sorcery behind metal with special guest guitarist Pete Holmes from Blackwulf! #RobertEHoward #Conan We also talk to independent movie directors Brian Hewitt (Hewitt Films) and Mike Fitzgerald (Fiendish Films) about their new indy horror movie, TRANSFORMATION! And a special bonus, as Tom sits down with his YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING co-host Skip Novak and writer/publisher Jeff Burk (Deadite Press/Eraserhead Press) for a discussion on Edward Lee, crazy people in horror and other random things. All this plus Walt tells us how sharp The Sword's latest, Used Future is, Tom took a trip to an Uprising in the Pacific Rim and Scott gives the axe handle to somebody Ultramantis.

Writer and musician Lucas Milliron joins Tom, Scott, Walt and Az for a trippy Volume 3 Chapter 45 of the Necrocasticon. With the passing of the grand space wizard and protector of our Earth, Stephen Hawking, we are ask ourselves...  Is reality safe from the madness of time & space? Cosmic horror reaches into our your mind and snaps the fabric of reality that holds your delicate psyche in sanity. Movies have given us glimpses into the dark side of the cosmos, as have the works of HP Lovecraft and most all horror authors to come after. And it is glorious to behold. But that's not all. Az will tell you about Lenore in the mortuary, our reviews may be doomy this week, but they are colorful... Walt combines two Green Druids into one for public consumption in the Smoker, and Tom picked up some Sinister Sides from Oakland doom metallers Blackwulf.

Volume 3 Chapter 44 of the Necrocasticon is judging a book by its cover as we talk about the artists that catch our eye time and time again.  From Drew Struzan to Richard Amsel and from HR Gieger to Derek Riggs and everyone else, we'll tell you why their art has become iconic. To help us out, coming back for her second appearance on The Necrocasticon is author Erin Kelly, who moonlights as art teacher Amy Baker when she's not working on her MOONLIGHT series of Urban Fantasy horror novels. Plus Tom kiss and tells on Veronica, Walt's brewing up some new Judas Priest in the smoker, and Tom got to talk to another previous guest on the Necrocasticon, indy film maker Todd Wolfson, the man behind 8 Bit Blood Bath is back with a new one – and he's going BATS(redacted for iTunes)T!

Volume 3 Chapter 43, aka the Winter Storm edition of the Necrocasticon. Tom, Scott, Walt and Az welcome back actor and musician Wayne Johnson to talk about the release of his latest movie, MOHAWK. It's a smorgasbord of topics as we talk about Wayne's projects, the Bram Stokers, The Walking Dead, Annihilation, the Oscars and Kevin Smith's heart attack. Plus this week's B-Movie review where we send wrestler Roman Dominguez into combat with THE TERRIBLE TWO.

We wrap up Women in Horror Month with writer and publisher CV Hunt. Her latest novel, RITUALISTIC HUMAN SACRIFICE is making waves in the extreme horror community, plus she's rad to chat with. We're going to torture you guys this week, as we talk about the Torture Porn Horror that you should be watching or reading. From SAW to Eli Roth and a Serbian Film, From Jack Ketchum to Ed Lee, what do we think are the most torturous torture porn horror properties out there. Walt throws back for his review this week, I can't tell what it is with all the white noise, Mr. Scott Punks out in the ER, Az goes to the mortuary and gives us another find in the digital wasteland that is You Tube, and Sgt Fury throws down with Nicolas Tana's HELL'S KITTY in our B Movie review.